Exploiting the Consumerization of IT to Achieve Enterprise Mobility

In my last post I discussed the consumerization of IT and what enterprises can do to enable positive outcomes from this current phenomenon influencing their IT organizations. My timing was good because this morning I read a great MIT Center for Information research briefing titled, “Harnessing the Consumerization of IT” http://t.co/RVTN87Nr. Though I was delighted to see my favorite research organization was tackling this timely subject, I had no idea they were simultaneously addressing an equally opportune topic – Enterprise Mobility.

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Enabling the “Consumerization of IT”

A persistent and inescapable phenomenon is beginning to have an impact on IT organizations everywhere. Whether IT likes it or not, users are bringing their “personal” technology to work. Workers have become increasingly dependent on “consumer technology” such as smartphones and social media and they are refusing to leave these devices at home. They have found countless ways to make themselves more productive and IT organizations now find themselves subject to what many are calling the “consumerization of IT.” 

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Enabling Innovation

I wrote a number of blog posts on the topic of innovation while I was at CA Technologies. I cited the call for the CIO and IT to play a greater role in driving business innovation and about the obstacles to IT’s ability to do so. In this post, I take a deeper dive into one of those obstacles and the solution to address it – a solution you may already have in place.

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The PPM S.C.A.D. Model

A recent analyst study found that 75% of organizations are “doing Project and Portfolio Management (PPM).” My immediate thought when I saw this finding was, “I wonder what people meant when they replied they were doing PPM.” I spent most of the past five years traveling around the world visiting one PPM-challenged organization after another. In visiting those organizations, I encountered countless approaches to and variations of PPM. Though the differences in this critical enterprise discipline were all over the map, I did encounter some common circumstances. I found PPM to be:

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Embracing and Learning from Failure

Does your company use the F-word? No, not that one. I am talking about the word “failure.”

I talk about IT project failures and failure in general in every IT Governance-related presentation I deliver. I have written a number of blog posts in the past on the topic of project failure. I have urged folks to follow my good friend Michael Krigsman, aka @mkrigsman, who writes a fantastic ZDNet-based blog called “IT Project Failures.” http://www.zdnet.com/blog/projectfailures.

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